Display Rocket Chat Version Number

[MuhClaren]

Are there any plans to introduce a version number somewhere in the UI? It'd be greatly helpful to have at-a-glance the current version running. Takes the guess work out of wondering if it's the latest docker image or not. Thanks for considering this.

[andrewgdunn]

It'd be very nice to know version-build as I re-deploy via docker. I have noticed several things I'd like to have reported as issues, but I can't attribute them to a specific build without slogging through the docker build IDs.

[gmsecrieru]

This should be possible with the efforts related to #961.

[geekgonecrazy]

@MuhClaren I think this is very much the plan. We're working on our build flow. It should be available very soon.

[Sing-Li]

100% accurate.

[MuhClaren]

A build number would be just as good; if it can be derived from the result of #961, that'd be excellent. Thanks for all your time and effort on this project. Cheers.

[Sing-Li]

@MuhClaren thanks.

Every new build now includes a version + build number.

For now, it can be accessed directly via : http://<your server name>/buildinfo/buildinfo.txt

Starting today, we will not be supporting any vX.X.dev build officially (devs can still get great help from the community on our demo community server ).

Other tickets will be created to 'read and display' this version information in more UI/UX friendly way across clients and servers - including mobile, Electron, web, and so on.

Please track progress (and improve the doc) on this wiki page.

There is a minor bug #1117 which should be fixed shortly.

I am closing this case for now.

[MuhClaren]

Great work! Thanks!

[JackDragon]

I couldn't find information on this, but this url does not work anymore. Instead, you can go to <your server>/api/info instead now to view your version info.

[HoldOffHunger]

It's been almost a decade. Is there yet any plan to show a version number in Rocket chat?

[geekgonecrazy]

has been here for a while

[HoldOffHunger]

How do you get to the "Info" page you're linking there? Because I have clicked every link in the top-left corner and nothing shows the version number. For example, I'm looking at: https://rchat.example.com/home . There is no version here at all.

[dudanogueira]

@HoldOffHunger
If you are the ADMIN of that instance, you can go to your avatar, then ADMIN > INFO

If you are not... you can check under the API:

https://open.rocket.chat/api/info

[HoldOffHunger]

Oh, yeah, that works. But I mean, is there a way to just show the version number in the documentation/main/page/whatever page? It can't be hidden because it's a "security issue," if I can just look it up in the API.

Most applications show their version number in the doc/main/page/whatever page. So they don't have to have their sys admins hunt down version numbers and figure out whether an application is out of date or not. I don't see why this information isn't just displayed normally?

[joker234]

I also have the issues that I can't easily track the version number anymore and let my monitoring system notify me when it's time to update, because of #16050. Do I understand it correctly, that I have to give my tooling full admin API access (see also #16050 (comment)). I think it's more of a security issue if I use admin API tokens in to many tools than everyone being able to read the patch version ;) I searched (as @HoldOffHunger did) as well for documentation. Is there any?